75, rue Vieille du Temple
75003 Paris
+33 (0)1 42 71 11 14
contact@galerietorri.com

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Founded in 2010 by Romain Torri at 7 rue Saint-Claude in Paris, Galerie TORRI has developed its activity in the Marais district, as part of a new generation of galleries interested in exploring new exhibition formats and rethinking the relationship between artists, collectors, and institutions.

From its inception, the gallery has sought to foster dialogue between different generations of artists, bringing together both historical figures (Braco Dimitrijevic, Olivier Mosset, Ai Weiwei, Hamish Fulton, Vera Molnar) and emerging talents such as Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Torey Thornton, and Guy Yanai. This approach has provided a distinctive perspective and increased visibility for younger artists.
The gallery has also encouraged exchanges between traditionally separate fields such as art, design, and architecture. This cross-disciplinary dialogue has become its signature: a place where artworks, objects, and furniture coexist within a shared space of reflection.

Artists such as Mathieu Mercier, Clémence Seilles, and Berger&Berger have explored the boundaries between function and fiction, material and idea, proposing new forms of aesthetic experience.
Designers Fabien Cappello and Victoria Wilmotte have created remarkable commissioned pieces that have led to celebrated collections. Several artists — including Torey Thornton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Landon Metz, and Joel Mesler — have found in the gallery a platform for their first exhibitions in France or Europe.

A certain economy of means and conceptual rigor run as a continuous thread throughout its program.

Until 2018, the gallery regularly participated in major international art fairs such as FIAC (Paris), Artissima (Turin), Art Brussels (Brussels), The Armory Show (New York), PAD (Paris), and Design Miami/Basel. These engagements have strengthened its position within an international network of independent galleries united by a shared vision of demanding, transdisciplinary art open to otherness.

From 2017 onward, Romain Torri has redefined the gallery’s model. Moving away from the constraints of a permanent white cube, he adopted a more flexible schedule, welcoming visitors by appointment in a domestic setting: an apartment-gallery where the experience of art becomes intimate, direct, and freed from institutional scenography. This shift reaffirms the gallery’s ongoing commitment to making the encounter with art a human and reflective moment, rooted in everyday life.

In 2021, while maintaining offices in the Marais, the gallery moved into a 200-square-meter apartment in Versailles, near the Château. This new space allows exhibitions to be conceived as immersive settings, where art, furniture, and design engage in dialogue within a lived environment.
Rooted in its surroundings, the gallery has developed local collaborations, notably with the Potager du Roi through a project by Natasha Andrews, while continuing to work with public institutions, as illustrated by its 2025 collaboration with the Centre Pompidou featuring the artist ZEVS.

Since 2024, Romain Torri has also carried out contemporary art appraisals for private collectors and auctioneers.
He now serves as an independent expert for public sales at Drouot (Paris) - notably with Daguerre Svv and Colin du Bocage Svv - thereby extending his long-standing commitment to the promotion and valuation of contemporary art.